Tom,
I take it that means that up until Port Jervis was discontinued as a crew
change point that crew members would have had to commute to/from Port
Jervis. Any idea what kind of radius from where the crews might have come
from?
Chuck
"Tom Beckett"
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Please respond to
"Tom Beckett"
Interestingly, Conrail kept Port Jervis as a crew change point for the
merchandise trains til fairly late. OIBU/BUOI/OIEL/ELOI(when it ran that
far, it mostly terminated at Gang Mills with the traffic forwarded on BUOI)
changed crews at Port til they quit running, if I recall. The crew district
ran from there to Gang Mills. The stack trains used the same crew points in
the beginning, but some time in the early or mid 90s, they started running
"long pool", Jersey-Binghamton, Binghamton-Buffalo.
Tom B
> The other thing was that Port was a terminus for passenger trains,
> somethng the EL also wanted to shake off. With freight gone, the EL
really
> had no vested interest in the town, and Conrail moreso.
>
> - Paul
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